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Security quotes of the week

Security quotes of the week

Posted Jan 18, 2013 13:24 UTC (Fri) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
Parent article: Security quotes of the week

Browser writers complain about “secret” MITM to compress HTTPS sessions, they complain about “broken” captive portals, but they're not expending a lot of efforts to permit explicit (user-approved) HTTPS proxies or to implement HTTP error 511 (to replace broken captive portals).

As a result every big infrastructure provider is routing around browser stupidity with those hacks. Do anyone still thinks refusing to acknowledge https proxies and captive portals exist will make them go away?


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